So like every other family with a blog, I'm just getting around to blogging about Christmas, but after six months of not blogging-- I figured it was probably time. Our family is doing well. Bryan just started a new semester and is still working full time. I'm still working part time and Bella is as busy as ever!

We spent Christmas Eve at my parent's house. My mom got the grandkids matching PJs. Bella loves them!



This is one of the only pictures I got from Christmas morning--Bryan was helping Bella figure out the whole Santa-brought-presents thing while I was video taping. She was so cute once she woke up a little bit and kept saying "Thank you Santa Claus, thank you (she still says thank you to Santa Claus-- especially when she's eating a sucker because before Christmas that was what she thought Santa Claus was "bwin-ing" her). She sings the cutest version of Santa Claus is coming to town and it's still her song of choice.


Christmas Eve, my brother decided to try out my camera. Here's my belly at 16 weeks. Awesome I know.


My nephew Deacon is the cutest little man. This picture just makes me want to squeeze his cheeks.



My parents got the grandkids a John Deere "Gator". Bella and Quincy were so cute with it-- they even found their own drinks for the drink holders.


The girls were in heaven! Bella prefers to be the co-pilot and by the end of the afternoon Quincy was a pro driver. Neither of them seemed to mind how freezing it was. We had to pry Bella's red little hands off and trick her still kicking and screaming to come inside.

This Christmas break was great with Bryan getting almost a whole week and a half off-- a much needed break for sure!

So now that it's officially, official-- we're expecting a new little one. He's scheduled to arrive in June. We're halfway there!!! We still haven't decided on a name so any suggestions are totally welcomed!

Oquirrh Mountain Temple

So yesterday we went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. It was so nice to be there as a family, but B was definitely not in a "I want to obey my parents and sit still and be quiet when I'm supposed to" kind of mood. My niece was so so excited to be able to go inside. She rode up in our car and the second we got out she said "we're at the temple!!" and "we're going to the temple". She was very excited about the "bathy" and thought that she'd be able to go into the locker room and "change into my swimsuit and go swimming in that bathy". You should have seen her face when we got to walk right next to the font. She bolted right for it!

Okay so maybe she's not really excited about seeing the temple. At least we have proof when she's older that she wasn't happy ALL the time.

At least someone was still in a good mood by the end. I love how Q is being so reverent in all these pictures.

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I decided to start a new blog in hopes that maybe, just maybe, I'll keep up with it this time!

This year we celebrated Independence Day on the 4th as well as the 3rd which was great for me because of the love I have for fireworks!! Bryan's family decided to take family pics while we were all together since the most recent pic of everyone didn't include most of the grandkids. Here are a few of the many we got that day: